{"id":27844,"date":"2011-12-08T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27844"},"modified":"2011-12-08T11:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:43:49","slug":"you-gotta-fight-for-the-right-to-flog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27844","title":{"rendered":"You Gotta Fight for the Right to Flog!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The outcry from OWS, Anarchists, progressives, the UN, NOW, LBGT groups, and our folks in DC has been deafening.\u00a0<strong> Flogging\u00a0 is a basic human right!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Surely you&#8217;ve heard it?<\/p>\n<p>Oh wait, <a href=\"http:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/2011\/12\/07\/maldives-muslims-fight-for-the-right-to-flog\/\" target=\"_blank\">the outcry is only in the Maldives it seems.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay visited the Maldives, she wasn\u2019t expecting to make much of a splash there. Officially the Republic of Maldives is a Constitutional democracy with open elections that any Muslim can vote in (not being a Muslim happens to be against the law in the Maldives). Unofficially it\u2019s a paranoid theocracy based on Sharia law where an Indian teacher who drew a compass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wikiislam.net\/wiki\/Persecution_of_Non-Muslims_%28Maldives%29\">had to be hurriedly evacuated<\/a> after students mistook it for a cross.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Human Rights apparatus generally tries to avoid looking too closely at human rights in Muslim countries because it knows exactly what it will find. The Maldives is a case in point. So when Navi Pillay stopped by the Maldives she followed the formula to the letter, praising the human rights progress in the Maldives and after a few minutes of that, briefly suggested that perhaps they should stop flogging women accused of premarital sex.<\/p>\n<p>(&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Despite Pillay\u2019s careful wording, Muslims in the Maldives reacted by holding a protest that accused her of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haveeru.com.mv\/news\/38900\">being a \u201cracist Zionist\u201d<\/a> out to undermine Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outcry from OWS, Anarchists, progressives, the UN, NOW, LBGT groups, and our folks in DC &hellip; <a title=\"You Gotta Fight for the Right to Flog!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27844\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Gotta Fight for the Right to Flog!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}